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| bwdml div1 was very busy this week, so its a good thing bio.b postponed their fixture vs unr, reduce the strain on overworked div1 admins  this means they remain in 4th place, and with 4k removed from the league, a win over unr (however unlikely) could put them into the playoff spots at the end of the season.
hat were unlucky in div2a as a low pinging ir managed to secure a win late in each game, on 99-84 on milktdm1 and 116-100 on dm14. this leaves hat midtable, where they should be fairly satisfied given the unsettled squad they've had to deal with. next week they play rp, who are a talented side but seem doomed to draw all their games.. although they managed a win over lkff in week5, only by 11 frags on one of the maps.
in div3b, bio.r lost to >> by 101-120 on milktdm1, before convincinly winning dm14 with a scoreline of 140-68. this should be a disapointing result for bio.r, as a win on milktdm1 would have put them top of div3b table with a superior frag difference over iu. as it is, they're still in 4th place, just behind t-u. seeing as t-u lost heavily to iu this week, i would expect bio.r or lsr to take their place in the promotion spots before the end of the season. next week they play n2s, a team with plenty of potential plagued by connections at the start of the season. if n2s get their best team out, they could make it tough for bio (is tourniquet still banned?).
a disappointing game in div3d which has turned me into a ctf'er saw a completely lagged fh helpless against the conservative tactics of pr on milktdm1, that game finished 66-39 (see my column). dm14 finished 119-72 to pr. this was a game where we were needing a win, and having narrowly missed out on points against craps last week, it will most likely be div3 for fh again next season by which time i will probably have moved to amsterdam to make use of my brother's chello dsl. the worst is over for us though, and a win over fcuk this week should bring about a good end to the season.
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some time ago, the urban terror team ran a map competition. the winners -
ut_paradise - paradise by exkalibur
ut_dam - hydro-dam by nyk
ut_sliema - sliema, malta by ozedood
ut_campus - campus by dick dastardly
ut_complex - the complex by mb
ut_afterhours - afterhours in the mall by dragonne{triad}
the map pack can be downloaded from barrysworld. (52mb)
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i posted this as i know a sh1t load of irish quakers play starcraft/broodwars. clanbase have expanded their leagues empire and have produced a starcraft cup. if your into sc, check out the cup page.
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jonathan "fatl1ty" wendall won the alien-vs-predator 2 competition in the dallas cpl last weekend, and won himself a 2002 ford focus.
i'm sure the first thing he does, if he doesnt sell it, is to take it to a body shop and get that green shit sandblasted off it, at least i would. nice car otherwise tho.
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some good news for all of us who play quake 3 on barrysworld servers. eircom and indigo are no longer routed through amsterdam meaning much lower pings can be achieved on these isps.
i emailed bigfoot recently to see about getting barrysworld linked more directly to eircom and since eircom already peered with the london internet exchange it was easy enough for barrysworld to get in touch with them and cut out the nasty european detour. pld bw.
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over in korea, the world cyber games came to conclusion for the q3 duels. zero4 beat lextor on prot4, leaving the champion totally undefeated through-out the whole tourney. for more details and demos, you can check out xsr.
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and its here. i finally got round to getting the server up and running. have fun on - eddie.ign.ie:27960
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the irish team have been placed in group 2 :
wales
isle of man
england
northern ireland
scotland
ireland
and of course, the schedule for the irish matches, which commence the 12th of january, are as follows :
week 1 - scotland vs ireland
week 2 - england vs ireland
week 3 - wales vs ireland
week 4 - ireland vs n.ireland
week 5 - isle of man vs ireland
the official maps will be c2 w1 w2 w3 wcp5 and one other (not known at this time. and lastly, barrysworld are sponsoring the entire event. the official euroctf page can be found here.
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mixed results in this week's bwdml, a default for bio.b and bio.r over bx and vgs. in div2a, a refreshed hat team beat rm fairly comfortably, 68-109 on dm12 83-108 on dm7. fh suffered with 2 of our first team unable to play, and lost a potentially deciding fixture to craps, 65-73 on dm12 and 74-116 on dm7.
next week bio.b play unr, who have not dropped points yet. hat face div 2a leaders ir, who have recently added former-hat 15-pinger riot to their squad. bio.r and fh play >> and pr, both of whom haven't been very impressive so far this season.
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a bit of news on bit , (har har). gzd and mistermen qualified from group a. gzd beat neo and wz to keep a 100% record in their group.
this thursday sees the conclusion, pop into #bio and the cannarbar!11[bot] will be showing scores from 7.30-12.
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i might as well let any of our readers know this, seeing as cyberfight.ru have it up on their main page, there is a newly discovered bug in quake3 in relation to the cg_bobup command. apparently, (i havent tried this, i'm working atm) if you set cg_bobup -0.3, it's like sticking a pair of x-ray specs on, and you can see straight through walls, which is obviously a very serious bug, and will fuck quake3 up for everyone until it's fixed.
the full article is up on cyberfight.ru, but here's a sample of what the command does.
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after alot of practice over several weeks and a huge amount of deliberation and hard decisions, i've finally come up with the final squad for the team. most of the team are soo close skilled to each other i found it extreamely difficult in deciding the final 10 players.
i would like to thank all the other players who turned up for the practice and trial sessions, namely, jedi, lucutus, napalm, psyk and town. jedi would have definately been on the team, alas, he's off to mexico with work. thanks to everyone else who trialed and sorry if you didn't make the team this time around. for the the following who did, well done :
capt - mindphuck
team - dest, kazz, killy, koopa, lorcan, m1ke, osiris, simo, vincent and zero.
you can check out the official team.ie web site on www.quake.ie/team.ie.
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the ul lan kicks off tonight with excess of 40 pcs expected over the weekend. anyone who doesn't come will miss out, (we hope), as a great weekend is expected with lots of qw,q3, starcraft, wolfenstein, avp, etc. etc.
it's mainly setup tonight until we get it all going, but should be up and going tonight without any problems. i might add, anyone coming that has any form of cat5 cables, bring them, last time i checked in on khan his fingers were nearly bleeding 
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the results table over at the bio
invitational tournament has been updated with all the results from tonights
game. the tourney group stages were a wacky ztn3dm1 success with 10 out of the
12 games taking place and two being postponed to be replayed later this week before
the next stage on thursday december 6th.
thanks to all who played tonight and won't be with us next week (fish
heads, wizzzards
and either mistermen, gzd
or neo depending on how the
2 replayed fixtures turn out !) hope to see you back for the next bit ... rumours
have been knocking about that the next bit will be ctf... however these are unconfirmed
canny lame rumours
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political arena,
take control of the us, play as bin laden or bush. sounds like fun. might not be the realistink shooter that cs or ut(urban terror u unreal freaks!) is but it looks like a laugh.
political arena for quake 3
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week 5 saw some good results for the irish sides with bio in div1a taking out dc on pro-dm6 109-166 and on cpm4 87-139. hats div2a game vs wz has been postponed.
bio.r have still to play koa on wednesday in div3b. fh managed to pickup a point vs dnd loosing cpm4 51-54 and winning pro-dm6 83-74.
this leaves bio well positioned at 4th in div1a, with 4k recently going inactive the season will be easier for the side. hat are placed 6th in div2a just above the relegation zone, however they've a game in hand and bolstered by the addition of the members of nd are likely to climb their group in the coming weeks.
in the lower divisions, bio.red are positioned 5th. it's been a very tight division so far, a lot of close draws and only 2 points separating bio.r from top placed [+]. the face of div3b is likely to change many times before we know who will make the promotion spot, the recent addition of collie, and term from gzd can only help the side go further though. fh are also placed 5th in div3d. they're 5 points behind league leaders craps. with the top 3 clans being promoted from this division fh would have to work hard to reach promotion.
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ahh, endless fun.
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just watched this now, pretty good q3 avi, some of the kills you would have done yourself, and some of them are pretty cool. it's 100meg so dont bother downloading it unless you have bandwidth to waste, because it's not going to change the way you live your life or anything. get it here.
clan nd are still looking for a player, anyone interested send an email.
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interestingly enough, a few of us were discussing whats the best mouse about at the moment and low and behold, the guys over at cybernews have a cool article on the 'perfect' mouse which is worth the read.
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mindphuck has gone and done a cool web page for the national team. the team for the upcoming euroctf cup isn't fully selected yet, but at least the site's ready to go. have a look here.
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saturday the 24th of november is the date the game we all play and love went gold.
happy anniversary quake 3!
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irish teams and players competiting in the uk leagues will now find it even more difficult to find a decent ping with the news of buy and sell closing in feburary of next year. here's a snippit of the press release :
the irish isp, buyandsell.net, has been forced to close after majority shareholder scoot.com pulled out because it was no longer 'part of their corporate strategy'.
buyandsell.net said that it had made arrangements with the isp utvinternet to ensure that customers continue to have internet access and e-mail use.
according to buyandsell.net's web site, customers can transfer to utv internet by logging on to this web page.
this is yet another blow to the irish isp market.
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if you don't already know, you do now. the lastest version of promode arena has hit the shelves over on promode.org. this is the one with the exchellento netcode and soo worth playing. local mirror here.
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in div1a, bigfoot's pick of the week on qn bio.b vs mr was postponed. the other 3 matches went well, as hat got a good win over the uk clan dfl in div2a, winning 100-81 on dm7, and 89-77 on milktdm1.
fh in div3d beat the spaniards ucq, despite them holding ra for longer than us on both maps. the scores finished 74-62 on dm7 and 81-51 on milk. in div3b, bio.r shared the points with the iu, winning dm7 101-99, but losing 87-96 on milk. this is a good result imo, as i had expected iu to be one of the main title contenders this season.
next week, the maps are cpm4 and pro-q3dm6, as bio.b face dc, who have not been very impressive lately.. suffering from adsl problems, etc, and this will be a good chance for bio to get some valuable points. for a change, hat will get to see what its like to play against aly's plasma spam, as they take on wizzzards.. should be an interesting game bio.r face koa, who i have never heard of, and don't appear to be doing well (defaulted their game this week). fh face the unbeaten french team dnd, who merged with zaf at the start of this season and have looked good in winning their games so far. bwdml website.
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well, the first promode movie is out, all 90 megs of it. its just trickjumps and i haven't seen the thing yet but heres what the fanclub had to say:
this is one great movie! if you ever thought that all of q3 is slow then you'll be proven wrong when you watch this, these 2 guys get some amazing speed goin and do some awesome tricks, get it and you wont be disappointed! gj shambler and crew.
[edit - zero]
i have put up a local copy of it here. it's v good, definitely worth havin a look.
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a few years ago a group of quake players starting running through huge quake levels at ridiculous speeds trying to beat each other's times, what resulted was quakedonequicker, a 16 minute run through every level in quake1 on nightmare mode, very impressive even by today's standards. but that was a long time ago so i was surprised to find that there is a whole bunch of people still obsessed with this speed-running, in fact theres a huge website with special levels and thousands of speed-running demos, i even tried to get down one of the demos, but its in some wierd dzip format. check it out here.
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polosatiy's website: cyberfight.ru has undergone some changes, handily enough theres a proper english version over on cyberfight.org
interviews: been quite a few recently... timber, czm, python, lexer and lakerman.
the argument between 4k and sk (or godsmurf and bigfoot) is just starting to slow down over on quakenation. sk 'lost' to a supposedly weaker team knocking 4k out of eurocup4 in the process, this caused alot of grief, so much so, some 4k members are thinking of quitting tdm...read it in all its glory here.
a reminder that the limerick lan is being held from 30th november to 2nd of december, thats in a week and a half. there'll definitely be qw, q3, q2 and starcraft competitions and by last count about 35 people have signed up. all the details are over on lord khan's page.
cpl president angel munoz did a 16-minute radio interview with a french canadian radio station the other day. you can download the mp3 version of the interview at avault
theres been a running poll up on challenge-world and i think its about time it was called a day,heres the results...
(qw=quakeworld, vq3=quake3, cpma=quake3-promode)
qw - 39.55 % (795)
vq3 - 21.79 % (438)
cpma - 12.84 % (258)
something else - 9.40 % (189)
cpma & vq3 - 6.17 % (124)
qw & cpma - 4.53 % (91)
qw & vq3 - 3.88 % (78)
cpma, vq3 & qw - 1.84 % (37)
rather convincing i'd say. oh and eh xsreality is back, looking a bit different.
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the last trials for the euro ctf team will take place this wednesday night, #ctf.ie, 8pm. if your interested in playing for ireland and you have the skill and commitment, please feel free to turn up.
also, if your up for just a few games, turn up too as their is bound to be a few spots free.
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bio is running an invitational tournament, it will be run on 2 days (29th of november and 6th of december). the tournament will be run on the wacky level choices of french man nightfever and you can find more info on the website bit.clanbio.com.
there's also an interview with me up on quakenation here.
one of the invited clans fear.uk just folded, so their invitation goes out to either fh or nd if either is interested.
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